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• gramie@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Almost exactly 50% of Christians in the world are Catholics, who acknowledge that the Bible is allegorical and not literal truth.

  If you are referring to fundamentalists (typically evangelicals), yes most of them do believe in the literal truth. Evangelicals in the US are about 24% of the population, and most likely Less in the rest of the world.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Part 1, Section 1, Chapter 2, Article 3 Paragraph 107 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches

    The inspired books teach the truth. “Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures.”

    And 116 further reinforces there is a literal interpretation of scripture that exists. If someone thinks the Bible is simply allegorical then they aren’t a Catholic at all, nevermind Christian

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    • gramie@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think your quote at all addresses the concept of whether Catholics doctrine declares the Bible to be literally true. Inerrant, yes.

      I think there is confusion because the church believes that some passages should be taken literally and other symbolically, and the church will tell you which is which.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So how’s that different from protestantism, except from a church existing to tell you which is which?

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